Kate Upton Was Actually Not Cool With the Video That Made Her Famous

At first, at least.

Back in 2012, not long before her supermodel status booked her frequent campaigns for Express, Guess, and the like, you might remember that a then-unknown, 19-year-old Kate Upton starred in a viral video shot by Terry Richardson entitled "Cat Daddy." (The infamous clip featured the model in an itsy bitsy teenie weenie bikini as she danced for Richardson.) But while "Cat Daddy" is arguably what skyrocketed the model to household-name status, she's now saying that she was less than comfortable with Richardson's decision to release it to the world without her permission.

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In a new interview with Alexa Chung for Vogue UK, Upton reveals that she was under the impression that the video was created just for fun, and was thrown for a loop when she discovered it was on YouTube for the world to see. "I was like, 'That was disrespectful. You could have told me!'" she told Chung.

Retrospectively, she's A-OK with how things panned out, telling Chung there are no hard feelings between her and Richardson: "Now, obviously, it's fine."